The Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan heads the Kurdistan Regional Government, the government of Iraq's Kurdistan Autonomous Region.

Widespread economic activity between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey has given the opportunity for Turks to seek jobs in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Duhok International Airport is an international airport under construction in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in northern Iraq.

Religion Iraqi Kurdistan has a diverse religious population.

There are at least 2 military airfields in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Erbil International Airport , is the main airport of Erbil city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Bapir is a former member of the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan.

By land, Iraqi Kurdistan can be reached most easily by Turkey through the Habur Border Gate which is the only border gate between Kurdistan and Turkey.

Kurdistan is a parliamentary democracy with a regional assembly that consists of 111 seats.

(By contrast, reconstruction in Iraqi Kurdistan is occurring at breakneck speed.)

Iraqi Kurdistan has opened its doors to the international world by opening two international airports.

The first international school, the International School of Choueifat opened its branch in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2006.

Born in al Qamishli, in 1974, Kamiran Shemdin published his cartoons in Aljazeera website and Ge P magazine in Iraqi Kurdistan.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq has effectively established de facto autonomy vis à vis the central government in Baghdad.

Iraqi Kurdistan has two border gates with Iran, the Haji Omaran border gate and the Bashmeg border gate near the city of Sulaymaniyah.

As reported to the Centre for Islamic Pluralism by the non governmental organization Stop FGM in Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, on 25 November, officially admitted the wide prevalence in the territory of female genital mutilation (FGM).

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.

On 7 November 2004, the Government of Iraq decided, based on article 1 of the law on national security, to declare a state of emergency in all of Iraq, with the exception of the province of Kurdistan, for a period of 60 days and with immediate effect.

A Referendum For Kurdistan?

Immigration Since the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqi Kurdistan has witnessed massive immigration from the rest of Iraq (particularly from Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandeans, Shabaks and Roma), as well as from South Asia.

Security forces recently intercepted suicide bombers entering Iraqi Kurdistan from Iran, with, Kurdish leaders believe, the support and training of Iranian intelligence.

High in the mountains of northeastern Iraq s Kurdistan region, wildlife conservationist Hana Ahmed Raza and a team of researchers with the non governmental organization Nature Iraq are working to protect the ghost like Persian leopard.

Moreover, the chances that Iraqi Kurdistan will achieve de facto or de jure independence are greater than ever.

Fourthly, my delegation has seen no mention made of the compliance and the progress made in Iraq's Kurdistan and in other parts of Iraq which enjoy social, economic stability and security.

But the United States remains adamantly opposed to such a deal between Turkey and the KRG, claiming that it would undermine Iraq s stability and fuel secessionist tendencies in the north.

Why not in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Turkey already supplies most of the KRG economy s imports, which accounted for 70 of Turkey s almost 11 billion in exports to Iraq last year.

America s fears are not shared in Turkish government circles, where the deals between the US oil giants Exxon and Chevron and the KRG are seen as proof that America is more concerned about its share of the pie in northern Iraq than it is about alleged threats to that country s stability.

1992 2005 After the Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 1992 resulted in the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan winning 50 out of 100 seats they decided to move on without President.

The program currently airs on DW Arabia and the Kurdistan based NRT Arabia.

For the past seven years, Nabil Musa has been traveling often times on a paddle board or in a raft around the Kurdistan region of Iraq on a one man mission to promote the importance of clean waterways for the current and future generations.

The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

In return, Turkey is to help the KRG build pipeline infrastructure that will allow oil and gas to be exported to Turkey without relying on Iraq s national pipeline, which is controlled by the central government in Baghdad.

According to the United Nations, because of the Islamic State, 200,000 Yazidis have fled various towns in northern Iraq and around 147,000 are taking refuge in the semi autonomous Kurdish regions, leading to the largest and fastest influx of refugees in decades.

The group now controls significant territory on two of Kurdistan s borders with Iraq and Syria.

Historically, some areas were labeled as being home to immigrants from Kurdistan and Balochistan.

Turkey s links with Israel, for example, have been strained by Israeli investment in Kurdistan.

Ziviyeh District () is a district (bakhsh) in Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.

The Central District of Saqqez County () is a district (bakhsh) in Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.

She has been involved in wildlife field surveys and educational outreach programs with Nature Iraq for the past six years. She has also been a member of the IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group since 2013 and has worked on efforts to establish protected areas for wildlife in the Kurdistan region.

Since the downfall of the regime of Saddam Hussein, the relations between the KRG and Turkey have been in flux.

After applying a reform in the Kurdistan Region in 2010, the structure of the UoD has changed to a Faculty System.

They continued to hold it for five more months, as the Province of Kordistan became the theater of the Iran Iraq War.

The Turkish military, however, oppose a high level dialogue with Iraqi Kurds on the grounds that the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK), headed by Massoud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, support the PKK materially and politically.